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On Friday, March 28, 2014, the Georgia Supreme Court granted a new trial to Resource Center client Artemus Rick Walker, convicted and sentenced to death in 2002 for the murder of Lynwood Gresham in Montezuma, Georgia, in 1999. The Georgia Supreme Court's decision affirms the judgment issued previously by the habeas corpus court, which heard extensive evidence of the onset of Mr.

On August 24, 2013, the Georgia Resource Center received The Arc of Georgia's annual Diedre O'Brien Award for outstanding advocacy on behalf of persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The Arc of Georgia has long advocated on behalf of this constituency and was instrumental in helping to pass Georgia's statutory ban on the execution of persons with intellectual disability (formerly "mental retardation").

"Why Georgia Can't Kill Warren Hill" "Warren Lee Hill should already be dead. But thanks to Georgia, which for years has feverishly pursued the death-row inmate's execution, as well as an unlikely and fortunate series of events, he has somehow managed to stay alive."

"Secrecy and the Death Penalty" "In a strongly worded opinion, Judge Tusan held that the 'complete lack of information available to [Mr. Hill] and the public itself' about the provenance of the lethal-injection drugs 'makes it impossible' for Mr. Hill to bring a meaningful claim that his execution would violate the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment."

In his MSNBC.com piece, Trymaine Lee provides detail as to Warren Hill's troubled upbringing and early signs of mental retardation: "Hill grew up in an abusive household and attended poor, segregated elementary schools in Elberton, a rural town in northeast Georgia. He was one of 10 children and his father, Warren Hill Sr., was an alcoholic. The family moved from small town to small town. The family was often without adequate food or clothing, and Warren Hill Jr.

In his most recent piece on the Warren Hill case, Andrew Cohen writes: "The main issue the justices confront this week is not complicated. Either Atkins still stands as a prohibition against executing the mentally retarded or it doesn't."

"Executing the Mentally Handicapped is Illegal -- Except When It Isn't" in The Atlantic, April 23, 2013:"In Atkins, Justice Kennedy, ever the advocate of state autonomy, craftily permitted states like Georgia to use their own standards to determine which capital defendants are mentally retarded and which are not. Well, here we are. Every expert from Georgia who has evaluated Hill believes today that he is mentally retarded.